It's definitely a high when you walk onstage and everybody starts applauding before you even say anything.
We cannot give up on working toward that more perfect union.
I can't believe women walk around in stilettos. I would not make it two steps.
I love how passionate Elder McKinley is about his faith, but he's a perfectionist in a bad way... to the point he denies his true feelings. It's a common story, unfortunately.
The way to talk about something sad is to sing a funny song about it.
Being a kid and growing up in Cleveland, the Tonys were how you saw Broadway shows: you got to hear from each show, and that's what inspired me to live my dream, so the fact that I am getting recognition from them, it's mind-blowing.
As a kid, I had nightmares about Freddy Krueger just from the trailers on TV!
Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence are such legends.
Pub life was such a huge part of growing up for me, going to pubs and being around them. It made me who I am today.
The theatre community is so powerful.
Los Angeles is where I became an actor.
'Hamilton' is a game-changer for the musical theater genre. It's moved the art form forward so much and redefined so many things about what we do in theater, so it's pretty hard to oversell it.
As someone who was once in the closet, I can tell you it is the most sad, dark, awful, depressing place to ever be.
Life comes before the business.
There comes a point when you have to be more than an actor, and doing something else that means a lot to me has actually made me a stronger actor. It's stimulated something else in my brain and heart.
I was eight when I played St. Joseph, and I told my mom from that moment on I wanted to be an actor.
You put me in the room with my family and everyone I grew up with, and I'd be the last person that you'd say is the performer.
I watched 'Downton Abbey' twice, and I'm thinking of watching it for a third time. It is so good!
I have a picture on my phone of me and Audra McDonald from when I went stage door-ing at 'Ragtime' in high school. I always keep it there because I try to remember how important that was to me.
There are a lot of other work forces that don't do things the way the Broadway community does.
